The Architecture of Denial defines how Denial Architecture Disorder (DAD) expands from personal repression into the Cultural Anesthesia Complex (CAC): a civilization that stabilizes avoidance through distraction, productivity, consumption, and media. This paper maps the micro–macro axis of psychic anesthesia, showing how private defense becomes public design.

This Discoveries record explains why Love–Life had to be formalized as the opposing state to Sex–Death in DNP. It defines Love–Life as coherence: integrative attention, inhibitory stability, conscience-access, and non-compulsive bonding.